APPLEYARD, William Lorenzo Eldridge - 1914

APPLEYARD, PAGE, LOUDENSLAGER, ELLIS, SMITH

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

William Lorenzo Eldridge Appleyard has for the past nine years successfully engaged in business at Cherokee as the proprietor of a furniture, undertaking and picture framing establishment. His birth occurred Oregon, Illinois, on the 23rd of March, 1879, his parents being J. W. and Mary Frances (Page) Appleyard, the former a native of England and the latter of Albany, New York. J. W. Appleyard, a furniture manufacturer of Chicago, was burned out in the great fire of 1871 and subsequently embarked in the furniture business at Odebolt, Sac county, Iowa. Later he removed to Nebraska and there continued in the same business throughout the remainder of his life. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, while his religious faith was that of the Church of Christ. Unto him and his wife, who has also passed away, were born the following children: Etta the wife of G. H. Loudenslager, of Washington D. C.; Alena, who is the wife of Jesse Ellis and resides in Waterloo, Iowa; and William L. E. of this review.

The last named aquired on his education in the schools of Odebolt, Sac county, Iowa, and when twenty-one years of age removed to Idagrove, Ida county, where he conducted a furniture store for Mr. P. W. Weggert. Subsequently he came to Cherokee and here entered the service A. O. Scott, whose stock he purchased at the end of two and a half years or on the 10th of August, 1904. He has remained at the same location throughout the interveining nine years and conducts an up-to-date and well appointed furniture, undertaking and picture framing establishment. Mr. Appleyard furnishes employment to three people and occupies two floors twenty-five by one hundred feet. He likewise owns two warehouses, one sixty by twenty-five and the other twenty-five by eighty feet. In the conduct of his business he utilizes two hearses, an ambulance and a pallbearers' wagon. Success has attended his efforts and he has gained recognition as a prosperous and representitive merchant of Cherokee.

On the 19th of April, 1905, Mr. Appleyard was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Smith, a daughter of J. D. F. Smith. They have a daughter, Jane, who was born in Cherokee. Mr. Appleyard is a progressive republican in politics and fraternally is identified with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Eagles. His success has been won entirely by the old methods of honesty and fair dealing. He has carefully planned his business, has the ability and executive force to carry it forward and has gained thereby a gratifying measure of prosperity.